Bad weather prompted some New Zealand planners to cancel outdoor events, but a low-key fireworks display went ahead at Auckland's Sky Tower.
In Auckland, the major city closest to the International Date Line, fireworks exploded over the city's 328m (1, 076ft) Sky Tower as midnight struck (11:00 GMT).
There may be a gray sky behind the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben when you take your vacation photos, but that's nothing a little photo editing can't fix.
Instead, I see one burning tower and smoked filled sky.
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The new Shanghai Tower is now over 500 meters tall, and currently stands 1, 643 feet into the Shanghai sky, making it taller than the World Financial Tower next door.
We may as well be climbing the tower of Babel to shoot arrows at the sky.
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The top of the tower is flat and offers a view of the sky above the Olympic Park.
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Sometimes a big blue hand would come down out of the sky and sweep away one or more levels of the square tower, or even the whole thing.
Dress up for the Sky Lounge bar, which perches on the roof of the medieval Consorti Tower, overlooking the Ponte Vecchio to the Tuscan hills.
With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.
Step inside Tower No. 5, and you immediately feel the cool breeze that funnels up 496 feet to the sky.
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